Roofing



HAAS@ Feb. 6, 1923.

R. c. NEPTUNE ROOFING Filed Apr. l0, 1922 Panarea ret. 651923.' e f Unirse STA-Tas inclinan c. 4iarr'rftrini, or sr. Louis, nissouar.

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Application led April 10,

To all/whom it may concern: y .Be it known that I, RICHARD C. NEPTUNE, a citizen of the UnitedStates. and a resident' of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, haveinvented a certain new'and useful Improvementfin Roofings, Y of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to roofing of the kind commonly referred to as prepared roofing. Suc-h roofing is extensivel)v marketed in rolls of long strips and has an ornamental design printed thereon. Heretofore it has 'been customary to discontinue the printed pattern short of the upper margin of the sheet, that is, to leave the upper margin blankA or unprinted, usually for a width of about two inches. On account of this niar- Oinalportion being leftblank. it is necessaryy 1n practice, that the blank margin be covered b the margin of a. superposed sheet in order or the patterns thereof to match; and when such rooting is to be used on a hip roof` it is necessary to cutthe strips into trapezoidal Asections Whose long edges shall all come from the same edgeyof the strip; that is, although one parallel sidev of each section is considerably shorter than the other side of the same section, the strip from which they are cut must be as long as the, ,totali ofthe long sides of the several sections. According to' present practice. the matching of roofing thus entailsv a veryv large waste of material, the v amount of vaste being proportionate tov the dierenoeA in lengt-h between the two parallelsides of the section. Y The principal object of the present inventlon is to savefthe material now wasted by reason of Vthe inability of the ligured roof` lng to match. in reversed position.

The invention consists-principally in a figured rooting of which sections cut theref from will match equally well in normal or reversed position; it also consists 'in a figured roofing, wherein the imprintV extends toY both margins of the strip andv wherein the figures are complete throughout the 'body of `the roofing andfractional along the side' marglns for Width suitable .fora lap joint, the design being identical along its" opposite side margins but disposed in opposlte direc. tions. l

In theA -ac`companyi` `ng draw' wherein like: reference characters refer like parts wherever they occur,

Fig.` 1 is a viewl of a strip of roofing con- 1922. serial no. 551,016.

forming to my invention, the dotted lines therein marking v0E trapezoidal sections such as is needed for use on a hip roof; and

Fig. 2 is a view showing the manner of tarea@ assembling the trapezoidal sections, the dotted lines indicating the outline of the'4 under or overlapped section.'

The longitudinalvshade lines along` one I.

border X of the Strip andl the transverse shade lines along the other border Y, appearing in the accompanying drawing, are not part of the imprint and do not appear on `the rooting, but are used in the drawing as a means of marking o the side marginal portions from the body portion of the strip and maintaining the identity of such mar-l gins in the drawing even when their ,positions are reversed. l 1 Y My rooting comprises a strip A of roofing of any'of the' kinds variously known as prepared roofing, strip-roofing or roll roofing. @ne face of this roofing is igured. that is, has imprinted thereon repetitions of any Suitable unit or Vpattern.`- Preferably the pattern (or patterns) is repeated in one or more rows ertendlng longitudinally of the strip; and the individual patternl or `unit 10 is symmetrical. The imprint or figuring reaches'lfrom one side edge of the strip to the opposite side edge. The marginal por tion X along one side edge `for a widthv vpattern that are uppermost inthe lower margin are lowermostthe upper margin,l ,y and the parts that arev at the right in the lower margin are at the left in' the upper margin. lin'consequence'of this arrange ment, when the sheet is turned end for end, itpresents' the same 'appearance as in its rst position. V

In consequence ofthe two marginal portions ofv the strip bearing the Same imprint in reverse, sections, such as A1, A2, A3 from the same strip may be matched with either margin overlapping, as due allowance having been made'inthe imprinting -or the lap, the sections will match equally well whether laid 'in their initial relative positions or with one section'reversed end for end reladerlappingthe margin I tive to the section to beimatched. For the located in the marginal portions. 'hen the figures are disposed corner to corner in longitudinal rows. as shown in the drawing,` the fractional figures comprise small fractions ll in the marginal or lap portions alternating with large fractions l2 that are the geometrical complement of such small fractions and that comprise a halt' unit 13 in the body of the strip and a smaller part ll in the marL ginal portion intended for the'lap.

In consequence of the capacity for matching when reversed end for end. it is possible to cut the strip into sections with oblique ends needed for fitting hip roofs without wasting any of the material on this account. In other words. the invention. enables the ,roofer to save the material heretofore wasted in cutting trapezoidal sections.

Thus. as illustrated in the accompanying drawing. the trapezoidal sections A1. A2 and AS may be cut from the strip A of roofing for use on a hip roof. As illust-rated. section A2 is reversed end for end and used below section A1. the margin Y of section A2 un- Y of section A1. In such casesfthe oblique end section A3 of the strip may be joined by proper seam to another section of sufficient length to piece out the run.

While I have shown one particular de-A sign. I do not wish to be restricted thereto, as the invention does not particular design but upon the capability of the figured strip being cut into sections that will match along both sides and this capacity depends on the two marginal portions of the sheets bearing thesame imprint iu reverse.

What I claim is: p

l. Strip rooiing'having its entire width from side edge to side edge imprinted with repetitions of a reversible unit of design. the distances between the respective side edges of the strip and the nearest points of the depend upon any l complete units being equal and of a. width to provide a standard lap ioint, such marginal portion alon one edge being the same as to imprint as tie corresponding portion along the opposite edge4 when placed in the same position, whereby sections of said roofing will match when position or when one is reversed end end.

2. Strip roofing having a selected pattern imprinted thereon in" longitudinal rows wherein the figure is complete throughout the body port-ion of the roofing and fractional along the side margins thereof, the distance from the respective side edges of the sheet to the nearest completeigures being of awvidth to provide a standard lap joint and being the same as to imprlnt when placed in the same position, whereby sections of said rooting will match when lsuch lapped in either normal. for

yI5 marginal portions are lapped in either normal position or when one is reversed end for ya selected symmetrical figure or `figures plus fractions thereof along the respective sides, one series of such fractions being relatively small and extending inwardly from each side edge for a width to provide a standard lap joint. and the other fractions being the geometrical complement of the small fractions and alternatingV therewith. the marginal portion along one side edge of the strip having the same imprint as the marginal portion along the opposite edge but in symmetrically reverse position.

4. Figured strip roofing imprinted from side edge to side edge with repetitions of a freversible unit or units of design and fractions thereof. said rooting comprising a body portion wherein the design appears in complet-e units and halves thereof. and side man ginal portions being of av width to provide a standard lap joint whereon there are only relatively small fractional parts of the'unit of design. the marginal portion along one side edge of the` strip having the same imprint as the marginal portion along the opposite edge but in symmetrically reverse position. Y

Signed at Indianapolis. Indiana. this 6th day of April. 1922. Y

RICHARD c. NEPTUNE.

Certieate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,444,550, granted Februery 6,

1923, upon the application of Richard C. Neptune, of St. Louis, Missouri, for an improvement in Roongs, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 93, for the Word lower read upper; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Oice.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of March, A. D., 1923.

[SEAL] KARL FENNNG,

Acting 'omma'ssioner of Patente. 

